Judy Blume Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Character

• The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Want

  Judy Blume (2014). “Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

• I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best . . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Together, Pieces

• I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I never thought about writing. I was married young, I was still in college, as we did then, and I had two babies before I was 25, and I loved them, and I loved taking care of them, but I was a little bit cuckoo, staying at home and not having a creative outlet.

  Judy Blume

  Baby, Home, Writing

  "Judy Blume's Love, Writing About Kids Ages 9-12". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 25, 2008.

• I have to go with what comes naturally to me. Fantasy isn't my thing. I did enjoy the Oz books when I was growing up and certainly my grandson and I read Harry Potter together. You write what you can as well as you can.

  Judy Blume

  Growing Up, Book, Writing

  Interview with Kendra Ralston, www.nypl.org. November 19, 2002.

• I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.

  Judy Blume

  Dream, Jobs, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Young at Heart: Judy Blume". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. December 13, 2004.

• I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

  Judy Blume

  Fun, Book, Writing

  Live Chat, www.nypl.org. November 9, 2002.

• First of all I can only focus on one creative project at a time. I wish I could focus on two, because I really only write.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Two, Focus

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Changed, Changing My Life

  Interview with Lena Dunham, www.dazeddigital.com. January 20, 2014.

• I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Kids

• I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to mind during that period before I actually begin. It might take months or weeks. That notebook is my security blanket so that I never have to face a blank screen (or blank page). But I print out often and my best ideas usually come with a pencil in my hand.

  Judy Blume

  Notebook, Writing, Ideas

• I am certainly a fearful person, but fearless in my writing. So there's that other person inside.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Fearless, Fearful

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Listening, Teach

• The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Care

• I love to talk with children. I try to visit schools but it's hard for me to travel when I'm trying to write. Some authors are able to do both.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Writing, School

• [Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Changed, Changed My Life

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Kids, Thinking

  "Judy Blume's Love, Writing About Kids Ages 9-12". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 25, 2008.

• I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, One Day, Stories

  Live Chat, www.nypl.org. November 9, 2002.

• I stop and think before I start a new book and ask myself do I really want to spend the next year or two or three with these characters because if I don't, then I shouldn't be writing about them.

  Judy Blume

  Book, Writing, Character

• I don't really know exactly how it happened but I don't like the idea that I would ever have said I'm going to write about racism or puberty or bullying.

  Judy Blume

  Bullying, Writing, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.

  Judy Blume

  Children, Writing, Years

  "Judy Blume's Love, Writing About Kids Ages 9-12". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 25, 2008.

• I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

  Judy Blume

  Writing, Fiction

  Live Chat, www.nypl.org. November 9, 2002.

• I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

  Judy Blume

  Teenager, Writing, Thinking

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